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CHAPTER XXVI. 

 MEDICINES. 



It is very necessary that every stock owner, more especially 

 farmers that live some distance from town, should keep a few of 

 the more important drugs and medicinal preparations on hand 

 for cases of necessity and immediate use. Many a poor animal 

 is ruined or dies for the want of proper medicines,, used at the 

 time the injury was inflicted or the disease commences; time 

 saved is money saved in treating diseases of stock. 



MEASURING MEDICINES. 



60 drops make 1 teaspoonful. 



1 teaspoonful makes 1 dram. 

 4 drams make 1 tablespoonful. 

 v? tablespoonsful make 1 ounce. 

 16 ounces make 1 pint. 



2 pints make 1 quart. 



4 quarts make 1 gallon. 



A wineglass will hold about two ounces; and an ordinary sized 

 teacup will hold about 4 or 5 ounces. 



Below will be found a dose table, giving the average size doses 

 of the more common drugs used in treating stock. Colts at one 

 month old take about one twentieth of what a horse does; three 

 months old, about one tenth; six months old, one fifth; one year 

 old, one third; two years old, one half. Medicines given to suck- 

 ling mares transmit the effects of it to the colt through the milk. 



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